Mike,
Not sure how long ago you got involved, but I feel this goes back to when IBM released VM/ESA and started shipping some modules as OCO.
They wanted to stop customers from tampering with the code, and removing the ASSEMBLER made this simpler.
It was much harder to justify a system modification of you had to buy the assembler to implement it.
You might want to browse some of the VMSAHRE files on OCO here:-
Dave
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Ward
Sent: 07 February 2022 12:02
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [h390-vm] Stupid z/VM 7.1 assembler question
It's all about money......
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Fish Fish
Sent: Sunday, February 6, 2022 9:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [h390-vm] Stupid z/VM 7.1 assembler question
Dave Wade wrote:
[...]
There is no HLASM in the base. It remains a chargeable, installable
product.
!! (me: shocked)
[...]
Not sure but be aware that as well as having no modern OP CODE support
from what I remember it won't generate code that the linker considers
to be 64-bit. It is in fact exactly the same assembler that there is
in VM/370 (well I think it has a couple of fixes) but it still has the
same limits and needs patching to assemble.
I find it both shocking and disappointing that IBM now chooses to charge for
such a product. :(
You would think an assembler that supports the very architecture their very
operating system runs in (as well as what's used in all of their code
samples/examples and what they recommend/encourage all their customers
to use too) would be an integral REQUIRED component of the operating
system itself, and not a chargeable "add-on" product. It seems silly to me
(and somewhat insulting as well) to only provide an assembler that is by
design INCAPABLE of generating the very code that the operating system
itself uses.
Boy, IBM sure has changed over the years.
And not for the better either.
(sigh)
:(
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"Fish" (David B. Trout)
Software Development Laboratories
mail: fish@...
